| LC control no. | no2015022769 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Zhang, Yitang, 1955- |
| Variant(s) | Zhang, Tom, 1955- |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | New Hampshire |
| Birth date | 1955 |
| Place of birth | Shanghai (China) |
| Field of activity | Numbers, Prime Number theory |
| Affiliation | University of New Hampshire |
| Profession or occupation | Mathematicians College teachers |
| Found in | Counting from infinity, 2015: title frame (Yitang Zhang) credits (Yitang "Tom" Zhang) container (Yitang Zhang; lecturer at the University of New Hampshire and mathematician who wrote a paper solving the twin prime conjecture) Wikipedia, February 18, 2015 (Yitang Zhang; Yitang "Tom" Zhang; Chinese-born American mathematician working in the area of number theory; born 1955 in Shanghai; received his B.S. and M.S. in Mathematics from Peking University in 1982 and 1984; came to the United States in 1985 to attend Purdue University, where he received his Ph.D. in Mathematics in 1991; afterwards, he remained in the United States, finally landing a lecturer position at the University of New Hampshire in 1999, becoming a full professor there in 2014, the same year that he was awarded a MacArthur "genius" grant) |
| Associated language | eng |
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